Cliff House Project
A Program of Western Neighborhoods Project

 

1868

Front Beach View Oceanside Interior Floor Plan Newspaper Misc

 

 


Daily Alta California - 9 March 1868

 


The San Francisco Examiner - Apr 6 1868

 


Daily Alta California - 26 April 1868

 


Daily Alta California - 7 Sept 1868

 


Advertisement, Sacramento Daily Union - Sept 19, 1868

 


San Francisco Chronicle - Feb 28 1871

 


San Francisco Chronicle - Mar 22 1871


 


Champagne Bath

Foster's Cliff House was sometimes known for the extravagance of it's
customers, like the purported "Champagne Bath"


San Francisco Chronicle - Mar 2 1891
 


The San Francisco Examiner - May 27 1892



San Jose herald - 6 March 1895

 

 


The Examiner - 18 Nov 1894

 


 

  Other Print References 

 


Pacific Rural Press - 23 Sept 1871

 


From book "Beautiful Old San Francisco", online at California State Library

 


Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1872
"CALIFORNIA - How to go There and What to See By The Way, by Charles Nordhoff"


 

This engraving was taken from a page of an old history book, Pecularities of American Cities by Captain Willard Glazier, 1886.  Engravings were common in books during the 19th century, before photos became more economical. The image was scratched into wood or metal and then used to make the print on the paper.

Update: this same engraving also appears in a book titled "The Golden State" by McClellan, published 1872


 


THE CLIFF HOUSE AND SUTRO PARK, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Drawn by Charles Graham
Harper's Weekly,  April 30 1887

 


Stoddard, 9-15-1893